Sheila Naughton: The Developmental Trust, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Every school is running two jobs at once: the one people were hired for, and a hidden one - managing how competent they appear. That second job isn't a failure of staff. It's what a system produces when it makes struggling feel unsafe, and it's quietly bankrupting the profession, one resignation at a time.

Built for education - but the model works wherever growth is taken seriously.

The Developmental Trust makes the case that a school or trust can be redesigned so that growth is not an event bolted onto the job, but the ordinary way the job gets done. Drawing on the deliberately developmental organisation research pioneered by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, and the author's own years as an embedded leadership coach inside a multi-academy trust, this book translates that model into the specific grammar of English schools - crews, the edge / home / groove framework, coaching cycles that replace graded observation, and a governance layer that lets boards measure culture with the same rigour they already apply to results and money.

This is a playbook, not a theory. Every chapter closes in a concrete tool a leader can use next term.

Written for multi-academy trust chief executives, boards, and headteachers navigating a recruitment and retention crisis the old CPD model was never built to solve - and equally relevant to COOs, HR directors, trust improvement leads, and non-executive directors responsible for workforce sustainability at governance level.

Teacher recruitment and retention are in sustained crisis, Ofsted's post-2025 framework has moved decisively away from single-word judgements toward continuous improvement, and MAT boards are under growing pressure to evidence workforce sustainability, not just outcomes. This book arrives exactly where sector policy and everyday practice are already heading - giving trust leaders a practical, evidence-based answer rather than another initiative to defend.